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Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022
wild yaks in Nepal

Nepal’s wild yaks ‘need more conservation than research’: Q&A with Naresh Kusi

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Nov 2022

Should more wildlife trade be legal and regulated? It’s complicated, say scientists

James Fair 11 Nov 2022
A palm tree stands tall in a forest in Costa Rica.

More than half of palm species may be threatened with extinction, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 9 Nov 2022
Gumwood trees.

Meet the Millennium Forest: A unique tropical island reforestation project

Jeremy Hance 2 Nov 2022
Fish eggs from the Halda River.

Fish eggs return to Bangladesh’s Halda River following conservation efforts

Abu Siddique 2 Nov 2022
A white-nosed saki.

To save threatened Amazon primates in Brazil, turn them into the main attraction

Sean Mowbray 27 Oct 2022
Plastic pieces found inside a dead shearwater.

Plastic impacts a grossly underestimated ‘one-two punch’ for seabirds: Study

Sean Mowbray 20 Oct 2022
A family clears overgrown aquatic weeds in a wetland.

Habitat loss, climate change threaten Bangladesh’s native freshwater fishes with extinction

Rafiqul Islam 20 Oct 2022
A cordycep dealer.

Local coverage of Nepal’s ‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest lacks eco focus, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 19 Oct 2022
A black rhino recently dehorned.

Poaching surges in the birthplace of white rhino conservation

Jim Tan 14 Oct 2022
A guigna.

Wild cats threatened by ‘underrecognized’ risk of spillover disease

Sean Mowbray 13 Oct 2022
A Charonias theano butterfly

Trouble in the tropics: The terrestrial insects of Brazil are in decline

Jeremy Hance 5 Oct 2022
Sumatran rhinos

New estimate of less than 50 Sumatran rhinos shows perilous population drop

Jeremy Hance 29 Sep 2022
A Madame Berthe's mouse lemur. Image courtesy of Matthias Markolf.

World’s smallest primate is fading into extinction, scientists fear

Malavika Vyawahare 29 Sep 2022

Rare turtles hatch from eggs rescued from flood-prone Nepal riverbank

Abhaya Raj Joshi 16 Sep 2022
A soft coral garden in west Greenland.

Greenland’s sustainable halibut fishery may threaten newfound corals, sponges

Amandas Ong 6 Sep 2022

In Nepal, endangered tiger kills critically endangered gharial. What does it mean?

Abhaya Raj Joshi 2 Sep 2022
Northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), found in the Neotropics. Image courtesy of Priscila Pereira.

Indigenous lands, knowledge are essential for saving primates from extinction, says new study

Kimberley Brown 11 Aug 2022
Nepal Beni jomsom road construction

No critical examination of flawed environmental assessments in Nepal, experts say

Abhaya Raj Joshi 11 Aug 2022
Thuza and Kusasa the white rhinos.

White rhino conservation project attempts paradigm shift by including local community

Ryan Truscott 19 Jul 2022
A dead vaquita floats in the ocean. Image by Robbie Newby for Sea Shepherd.

Experts fear end of vaquitas after green light for export of captive-bred totoaba fish

Michelle Carrere 28 Jun 2022
The Talaud bear cuscus.

To win island-wide conservation, Indonesia’s Talaud bear cuscus needs to win hearts

Sean Mowbray 22 Jun 2022
A northern cassowary (Casuarius unappendiculatus).

Proposed copper and gold mine threatens the world’s ‘second Amazon’ in PNG

John Cannon 13 Jun 2022

Ray care center: Indonesia’s Raja Ampat a key nursery for young reef mantas

Basten Gokkon 9 Jun 2022
Mohéli hosts one of the largest nesting sites for green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Indian Ocean.

For 20 years, Comoros had only 1 national park. It’s now creating 5 more

Malavika Vyawahare 31 May 2022
A Bengal tiger sits on a road in neighboring India.

Nepal’s key habitat could lose 39% of its tigers in 20 years, study says

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 May 2022
Spiky yellow woodlouse. Image courtesy of www.sainthelenaisland.info

Can we save the spiky yellow woodlouse, one of the most endangered isopods? (commentary)

Nick D’Onofrio 27 May 2022
The endangered manta ray

For reef mantas, Indonesia’s Komodo National Park is a ray of hope

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 May 2022
The spotted tody-flycatcher, native to South America and the Caribbean, hunts insects alone or in pairs, and is well-adapted to humans, happy in forest or overgrown pasture. Image courtesy of Alexander Lees.

Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Sharon Guynup 23 May 2022
Two male proboscis monkeys in Malaysian Borneo.

Ecotours aimed at saving monkeys are likely stressing them out, study finds

John Cannon 23 May 2022

As tiger numbers in Nepal and India grow, their freedom to roam shrinks

Abhaya Raj Joshi and Sahana Ghosh 13 May 2022

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